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Famous People who believe in Reincarnation

I watched a documentary about 'indigo children' this evening and many of the children, doctors, scientists, researchers, and parents believed in both reincarnation and an intelligent creator. I believe the doc. was in association with Doreen Virtue PhD., who is a fairly well-known author. I believe Gary Zukav was also interviewed (I was only recognising most of the names from this website), and a few others whose names looked familiar. No Mileys or Oprahs though.


Oh, and how could I forget! Singer/songwriter Paula Cole believes in reincarnation and based the concept of her music video for the song "I Don't Want to Wait" on this belief.


This video came out when I was fairly young and it really helped me to deal with my own experiences and beliefs. It helps to know that 'famous' folks believe as well.
 
How many famous song writers? I hear hints of and blatant descriptions of reincarnation in songs these days - a LOT! Indigo Girls is one. ;)
 
Another philosopher who believed in reincarnation:


"Philo--Known as Philo Judaeus. 30 B.C.-45 A.D. Hellenizing Jewish philosopher of Alexandria."--From The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language

A quote: "Now all these souls seem to descend upon the earth with a view to being bound up in mortal bodies, those namely which are most nearly connected with the earth, and which are lovers of bodily habitations. Others, however, soar upwards, and are distinguished from others of their class according to the times and characteristics which Nature has appointed unto them. All these souls, those which are influenced by desires for mortal existence and which have been previously familiarized with it, return to mortal life. But others, refusing bodily life as a great folly, and as a mere trifling, pronounce it a prison or a grave, and fleeing from it by the impulses of their nature as from a house of correction or a tomb, raise themselves on the light wings of their nature towards the aether where they devote all their life to speculations of a divine type, etc., etc."
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I knew you all would be excited by this additional believer in reincarnation! :) But maybe you'll find how I discovered this a bit more interesting....


It started in the "Choosing A Family" thread by azgrl25. I mentioned I thought I had a Holocaust past life in a post. And then after posting that, I decided to re-check the spelling of the word "glimpsed" in a dictionary by by PC. (I don't have the website dictionary downloaded yet, because I'm waiting until I hook up my PC this week to my sister's high speed router. I have dial-up.) When I opened the dictionary, I opened it to an "H" page, and the first thing I saw was a picture of Hitler. Both azgrl25 and I thought that was interesting...maybe a sort of dictionary divination or something. Thus, the next night, while I was listening to my iPod in the dark, I thought of the dictionary again, and decided I was going to open it up in the dark, and see if it gave me a clue to a past life. Hence, I opened it, and ran my fingers up and down the page I landed on, and then used my iPod to light up the page. My finger was on "Philo". I have never heard of this guy, and have no idea if he has any connection to a past life of mine. But he apparently believed in reincarnation!:laugh:
 
I find this thread interesting. I had no idea that Patrick Swayze believed in reincarnation, I wonder if his wife does too? She has said in an interview after his death that it made it easier to know that they will be together once again. She also referred to him as her soulmate.


Obviously nobody expected for him to pass away when Ghost was made - does anyone else wonder about that movie being a possible indicator of a PL? Or in a way, a sign of some sort? His relationship with Demi in the movie seems to parallel his marriage with his wife. They also both chose to do this particular movie for a reason, could it be a karmic thing? And if I remember correctly, I thought I read somewhere that Demi believes in reincarnation as well.
 
Lewis Black, who is a popular American stand up comedian, has a book out right now called Me of Little Faith. The book is him offering up his personal opinions on religion based on a lifetime spend searching for something to believe in that makes sense.


I saw it in the bookstore and started looking through it. Obviously I didn't have time to read it in the store, but I noticed that there was a chapter in it on reincarnation. I opened the book up to that chapter fully expecting Black to completely rip apart the idea reincarnation. To my suprise he said he likes the idea of it, and of all the beliefs about what happens when we die, it makes the most sense to him.


The chapter was only two pages long because he really didn't have anything negative to say about it.


Just thought I'd share. :cool
 
The poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote abt reincarnation.


I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,


In life after life, in age after age forever.


My spell-bound heart has made and re-made the necklace of songs


That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms


In life after life, in age after age forever.


Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,


Its ancient tale of being apart or together,


As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge


Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:


You become an image of what is remembered forever.


You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount


At the heart of time love of one for another.


We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same


Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-


Old love, but in shapes that renew and renew forever.


Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you,


The love of all man's days both past and forever:


Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life,


The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours-


And the songs of every poet past and forever.
 
Thanks for sharing that, katrien, its beautiful. I was struck by this line:

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount
At the heart of time love of one for another.
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Yes Katrien!! How beautiful to read...to slip into those words and... understand. Thank you. I would love to read the rest of it or know its name, could you provide that?


Tinkerman
 
Axl Rose from Guns and Roses is a big believer in reincarnation and past lives. He has had regression therapy and uncovered a lot about himself. I recall a Rolling Stone interview where he discussed a Native American past life.
 
Thanks Obie :thumbsup:


I was a bit of a GnR fan back in the day! Now I'm wondering if he covered this topic in any of his songs? I'll check them out when I have more time to spare :)
 
Me, too x 2! headbang.gif


I actually remember now reading about Axl W. Rose's regression therapy when I was a teenager. But that story was about his memories of having been in his mother's womb and having been born.


Karoliina
 
I know that Julius Caesar believed himself the reincarnation of Alexander the Great and Alexander the Great thought he was both related to and the reincarnation of Achilles as well as some people say Alexander thought he was the Reincarnation of Cyrus the Great.
 
Ben Franklin's humor and belief in reincarnation followed him to his grave:


The body of


B. Franklin, Printer


(Like the Cover of an Old Book


Its Contents torn Out


And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)


Lies Here, Food for Worms.


But the Work shall not be Lost;


For it will (as he Believ'd) Appear once More


In a New and More Elegant Edition


Revised and Corrected


By the Author.


Benjamin Franklin's Final Epitaph


Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: 1790
 
Lady Gaga believes she is the reincarnation of her youngly deceased aunt. Her aunt Joanne was a poetess, a highly creative person it seems with some strange manners :D . According to Gaga's mother, staying with Gaga's father in his birthhouse, she felt the light and spirit of Joanne giving her consent for the marriage and touching her belly. The singer declared one of her spiritual guides told her he felt two hearts in Gaga's chest and that is what she believes herself.


I wouldn't know about the two hearts but this seems a very convincing case to me.
 
There's a new reality show on the SyFy channel starring well-known psychic Mary Occhino. The last episode I saw she went to Salem with her daughter to discover that they were both killed as witches during the Salem witch trials.
 
Great thread! Very interesting, I've heard about Patton, wonder who/where he is now? Richard Wagner is a distant relative from my German Grandmother's family, interesting to read that he believed. My Oma always talked about psychic "stuff", although she was a devout Catholic. Said it runs in the family.
 
Keith Urban


Country music singer Keith Urban has said he had memories of being a court jester in a life in the middle ages -- Germany, I think. He's a really hilarious guy with such a phenomenal spirit, and he performs as if his very life depends on it, so I can totally believe he would have been a court jester. I can believe he'd understand that the show must go on no matter what.
 
Long before I believed in reincarnation, I enjoyed reading the works of:


Ben Franklin,


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,


Winston Churchill,


Jack London,


Freidrich Nietzsche,


Ralph Waldo Emerson,


Walt Whitman,


William Wordsworth,


Albert Schweitzer,


Henry David Thoreau,


Socrates,


Carl Jung,


Leo Tolstoy,


Voltaire


It's interesting to read what the above people have written specifically regarding Reincarnation:


http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_3_3.htm


Little did I realize that they believed in Reincarnation, but my attraction to these thinkers either laid the foundation for my belief, or my attraction could have been due to my predisposition toward Reincarnation.
 
Poet Laureate's Poem On Reincarnation


The journey of the soul through many lives on earth, the eternal justice of God, and the joyous scaling of height over height in the long ascent to kingship – these are all depicted in this poem by John Masefield, British Poet Laureate:


A CREED


I hold that when a person dies


His soul returns again to earth;


Arrayed in some new flesh disguise,


Another mother gives him birth.


With sturdier limbs and brighter brain


The old soul takes the roads again.


Such is my own belief and trust;


This hand, this hand that holds the pen,


Has many a hundred times been dust


And turned, as dust, to dust again;


These eyes of mine have blinked and shone


In Thebes, in Troy, in Babylon.


All that I rightly think or do,


Or make or spoil, or bless, or blast,


Is curse or blessing justly due


For sloth or effort in the past.


My life's a statement of the sum


Of vice indulged, or overcome.


And as I wander on the roads


I shall be helped and healed and blessed;


Dear words shall cheer and be as goads


To urge to heights before unguessed.


My road shall be the road I made;


All that I gave shall be repaid.


So shall I fight, so shall I tread,


In this long war beneath the stars;


So shall a glory wreath my head,


So shall I faint and show the scars,


Until this case, this clogging mold,


Be smithied all to kingly gold.


- John Masefield.
 
"All those are dead, even for the present life, who do not believe in a future state. The belief in that future life, it is the object of Freemasonry, as it was of the ancient initiations, to teach."


Lorenzo De Medici.
 
And my personal favourite:


"I raise my hand to the threatening rock, the raging flood, and the fiery tempest, and cry, 'I am eternal and defy your might; break all upon me; and thou Earth, and thou Heaven, mingle in the wild tumult; and all ye elements, foam and fret yourselves, and crush in your conflict the last atom of the body I call mine,' my WILL, in its own firm purpose, shall soar unwavering and hold over the wreck of the universe!"


Fichte:
 
Yet another website has listed famous people who believe in Reincarnation along with their quotes. Many of the names have been mentioned in previous posts of this thread, but some of the quotes are different and quite inspiring. I took great interest in the following quote by Julius Casear in which he says that the Celts were fearless warriors because

they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another...
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I've always felt a strong connection with the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley.


It's as though I might of lived a Past Life (PL) and encountered some of which he talks about in his poem.


By my interpretation of the poem (IMHO), it seems to me to possibly mention Reincarnation, but especially in the last two lines, where it touches on the immortality of the individual soul and what I believe to be true: "I am the Master of my Fate: I am the Captain of my Soul".
 
A curious little snippet that I found fascinating - this was touched on briefly in one of the Lord of the Rings DVD's in the extra features - JRR Tolkien as a child had had recurring dreams of waves washing in over a city on a green island, and they'd end with him gasping in deep water. There apparently wasn't any reason for them that he ever understand. The suggestion was that perhaps it was some memory of Atlantis.


Could be any number of reasons, and I don't know what he believed, but as an adult he later used the imagery in his stories for the Downfall of Numenor.
 
Galileo


The indigo girls Song

Galileo


Indigo Girls


words and music Emily Saliers


Galileo's head was on the block


the crime was looking up for truth


and as the bombshells of my daily fears explode


I try to trace them to my youth


And then you had to bring up reincarnation


over a couple of beers the other night


and now I'm serving time for mistakes


made by another in another lifetime


How long till my soul gets it right


can any human being ever reach that kind of light


I call on the resting soul of galileo


king of night vision, king of insight


And then I think about my fear of motion


which I never could explain


some other fool across the ocean years ago


must have crashed his little airplane


How long till my soul gets it right


can any human being ever reach that kind of light


I call on the resting soul of galileo


king of night vision, king of insight


I'm not making a joke, you know me


I take everything so seriously


if we wait for the time till all souls get it right


then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation


in my lifetime I'm still not right


I offer thanks to those before me


that's all I've got to say


'cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime


now I have to pay


but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration


to let the next life off the hook


but she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life


I think I'll write a book"


How long till my soul gets it right


can any human being ever reach the highest light


except for Galileo God rest his soul


(except for the resting soul of Galileo)


king of night vision, king of insight


How long


(till my soul gets it right)


[til we reach the highest light]


how long


(till my soul gets it right)


[til we reach the highest light]


how long


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Nightrain1 said:
Ben Franklin's humor and belief in reincarnation followed him to his grave:
The body of


B. Franklin, Printer


(Like the Cover of an Old Book


Its Contents torn Out


And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding)


Lies Here, Food for Worms.


But the Work shall not be Lost;


For it will (as he Believ'd) Appear once More


In a New and More Elegant Edition


Revised and Corrected


By the Author.


Benjamin Franklin's Final Epitaph


Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: 1790
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Is this the only evidence that Ben believed in reincarnation? It sounds to me like he's subscribing more to the belief of being reborn again in heaven.
 
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